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Computer Science is Growing in K-12 Schools, But Access Doesn’t Equal Participation

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Computer science has a wider footprint in schools than ever before, but there are differences when it comes to who has access to computer courses and who’s enrolling. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally.

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Digital Accessibility Is a Bigger Education Issue Than We Think. Here’s What We Can Do About It.

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The newsletter, while pretty, had the gritty look of a document that’s been printed out and scanned back into the computer. As a school communications professional trained in digital accessibility, I’ve probably seen hundreds of newsletters like the one forwarded to me — and that’s a problem.

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Portraits and Pathways: Computational Thinking Pathways Fulfill a Portrait of a Graduate

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These competencies include creativity and innovation, communication, critical thinking and problem-solving, citizenship, flexibility and adaptability, and resilience. But in the process of communicating the values and aspirations of the district and wider community, these Portraits also function to align the work of schools and educators.

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What One Startup Founder Learned in Her Quest to Change How Profs Communicate With Students

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Sankar understood the shy student experience because she had been one herself, having gone to college in India where she was one of only three female students majoring in computer science. A big push that we started to do with COVID was to make our website mobile accessible" because some students lacked enough laptops at home.

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CoderZ Launches New TEKS Aligned Computer Science Curriculum for Grades 3-8

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About CoderZ’s Commitment to Computer Science in Texas Demand for skilled STEM occupations is growing rapidly around the country, and especially in Texas where the government estimates these roles will make up 10.5% of total state employment. In addition, all courses include TEKS-aligned ELAR and Mathematics extensions.

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InfoStellar: The Future of Satellite Communications

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Yet, within a matter of decades, engineers worked together to discover the immense possibilities presented by satellites, ranging from Earth observation and imagery to communication and navigation. This means satellites have only less than an hour within the communication range of the ground systems. 2018, June 1). SpaceWatch.Global.

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11 Bits of Wisdom I Learned From a Computer

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A Denial of Service — a DoS – is defined as: “…an interruption in an authorized user’s access to a computer network…” If I’m the “authorized user” and my brain is the “computer network”, this happens to me often. In technology, “Baud rate” determines the speed of communication over a data channel.

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